This article about a person or group of people is a stub. F46d4 1987 80 i ai 8646317 isbn 0253358531 isbn 0253204410 pbk. Patricia white, an associate professor and chair of film and media studies at swarthmore college, is the author of uninvited. Feminism, semiotics, cinema and feminist studiescritical studies ed.
Cinematic identification is the term used for the phenomenon that happens when spectators subconsciously relate to and identify with a film. Intersections between pragmatist and continental feminism. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Includes bibliographical references and index accessrestricteditem true addeddate. Her books include alice doesn t 1984, feminist studiescritical studies ed. The portrayal of insanity in the feature film by michael fleming, roger manvell.
Like alice with her ball of worsted, an unheroic ariadnes thread which the kitten keeps unraveling, feminism has dared the labyrinth. Shortly after completing her doctorate in modern languages and literatures at bocconi university in milan, she relocated in the united states and held academic positions at the universities of colorado, california and wisconsin, where she taught italian language and literature, semiotics, feminist studies, and film studies. Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, womens studies, lesbian and queer studies. It is important to note that feminists defending a feminist standpoint epistemology are also trying to grapple with the problems of political ineffectuality caused by contradictions in feminist epistemology and the tensions between cultural and. There is hardly a page in this collection of hardthought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight. Africanamerican womens history and the metalanguage of. My own work in alice doesn t 1984 and tecnologies of gender 1987 was a direct response to that womens cinema and an effort to theorize it through the exciting exchange that. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Feminism, semiotics, cinema appears in the context of what one hopes will be the first wave of. Publication date 1984 topics feminism and motion pictures. She came to the united states shortly after completing her degree and taught italian, comparative literatures, womens studies, and film studies at several american universities, including the. She is also general editor of the series theories of. Psychoanalysis and contemporary theory feminist media. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Her book is aimed at every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment. Feminism, semiotics, cinema and is the editor of feminist studiescriticial studies. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both english and italian. Alice doesnt symbolic, cultural representations of women. Feminism, semiotics, cinema and the editor of feminist studiescritical studies. Theories of representation and difference includes index.
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